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missioner

British  
/ ˈmɪʃənə /

noun

  1. a less common name for missionary

  2. a person heading a parochial mission in a Christian country

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Rev. Bradley Hauff, the Episcopal Church’s missioner for Indigenous ministries, who is Lakota and a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said faith groups must confront their history of collaboration on the schools.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022

“We all need to work together on this,” said the Rev. Bradley Hauff, a Minnesota-based Episcopal priest and missioner for Indigenous Ministries with the Episcopal Church.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

From 2013 to 2015 she was a canon missioner at Washington National Cathedral.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2017

The Reverend Canon Anna Norman-Walker, a diocesan missioner at Exeter Cathedral, recalls Michelle confiding that she had "lost count" of the number of social workers she had had.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2013

The Magyars in Hungary were led to faith through loyalty to their temporal monarch, their royal missioner St. Stephen.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman

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